Would it surprise you to learn that two men are not able to make a baby together? Neither can two women. Did you know that? Does that mean they are infertile?
Some of the minds at the World Health Organization think so, and think it’s about time we acknowledged this disease/disability in homosexual couples and treated it accordingly.
We are fed so much irrationality these days that we are slow to spit it out, and worse, too many are developing a taste for it. But it is irrational — and ridiculous — to alter the definition of infertility to include homosexual couples, as WHO seems wont to do.
Any sane person understands that two men or two women together will never be able to achieve pregnancy. Human biology guarantees it. The requirements of procreation cannot be met by two males or two females. That is by design, and there’s no defect in the design. There is, however, a defect in the modern expectation.
The natural laws governing the human person are not persuaded by our unnatural demands. So, what to do? Change the meanings of words. We cannot change reality, so we try to alter the meaning of things instead. If we say fertility has nothing to do with male/female sexual intercourse, then infertility becomes a problem shared and experienced by absolutely anyone, and any combination of anyones. Even if it’s absurd.
All that matters anymore is that we get what we want, through whatever means necessary. “I want it, therefore I have a right to it” is the anthem of our time. On the flip side of this coin is, “I don’t want this, therefore I shouldn’t have to suffer it.”
This is the mindset that has led us to treating children as commodities to buy, sell, manufacture, and destroy at will.
A New Definition of ‘Infertility’
Right now, WHO calls infertility a disease of the reproductive system, made evident through a lack of pregnancy after more than a year of unprotected sex. The organization also considers infertility a disability, on the grounds that it seriously impairs infertile people from a major life activity.
The new definition nixes the idea of infertility as just a medical condition. It expands the right to reproduce to be one that goes beyond biological means.
Fertility physician David Adamson, one of the new definition’s authors, told the Telegraph that these standards strengthen the idea that everyone should be able to start a family.
“It puts a stake in the ground and says an individual’s got a right to reproduce whether or not they have a partner. It’s a big change,” Adamson says. “It fundamentally alters who should be included in this group and who should have access to healthcare. It sets an international legal standard. Countries are bound by it.”
There it is. “an individual’s got a right to reproduce whether or not they have a partner.” Not only are same-sex couples “infertile,” but every individual has the right to reproduce with or without a partner.
Adamson could not be more wrong. No one has the right to a child. Individual people do not have a right to reproduce. The gift of new life is the prerogative of God, and children are the blessing and fruit of marriage. Nobody has any inviolate claim on another human being.
The Genuine Rights of Children
Completely ignored in all of this are the genuine rights of the child. This philosophy turns the child into a thing to be acquired; an accessory to be chosen; a commodity to be purchased. The individual’s got a right, after all. The child has no rights because he’s not considered an individual.
We’ve stopped seeing children as a gift from God, respecting His authority to give. Now we see them as a product that is within our power to both create and destroy as we wish. Four decades of legal abortion has proven it beyond any doubt.
But the madness we’re seeing today didn’t start with legal abortion. It started when society first separated sex and procreation. It began with the demand for contraception. Once sexual intercourse is severed from its intended purpose and natural result, the crack has been made in the human foundation.
We demanded sex without babies. Then we demanded the “right” to destroy the babies who came anyway, despite our contraception, and the crack grew wider. Now we demand babies without sex at all, without even a “partner,” and the foundation is crumbling into total irrationality.
We’ve denied our babies the legal right to life. Now we want to enshrine in our laws and practice, through a convoluted perversion of words, that our babies have no right to a mother and a father — their mother and father. They must accept being the products of donors, surrogates, and laboratories, ordered up by any one, two, or more people, because the “individual’s got a right to reproduce.”
A Violation of Human Dignity and the Human Family
This is a violation of human dignity and the human family. God didn’t grant us the right to reproduce. He created the human family: father, mother and child. He established the covenant of marriage between a man and a woman, and He blessed their physical union with new life. This is the only plan that protects the human dignity and the rights of the child and preserves the integrity of our sexuality.
This is why the Catholic Church has always condemned artificial contraception as immoral. The Church foresaw the inevitable damage that would be done to marriage, to children, to the family, and to our very understanding of the human person by tearing asunder the marital sexual act and the child.
Can anyone seriously deny that we are now witnessing that damage in full, terrible bloom? The obsessive, all-consuming demand for sexual “freedom” and the arrogant desire to control life itself has caused us to forget what it means to love and be human; and to trample our children’s dignity and rights even before they exist.
WHO’s redefinition of infertility puts a stake in the ground, alright. The crack in the human foundation has widened to a great chasm, and we’re falling in. (For more from the author of “World Health Organization Is Wrong: No One Has the Right to a Child” please click HERE)
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